May 27, 2007

A CROOK A DAY

A government investigation has found a top Bush administration official broke the law by encouraging subordinates to use their power to support Republican candidates for office, sources tell ABC News.

In a draft report, the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) determined Lurita Doan, head of the $56 billion General Services Administration, violated the Hatch Act, which bars certain partisan political activity by government officials and employees, according to sources familiar with the document.

OSC confirmed Doan asked other GSA employees to think how their agency could help "our candidates," following a 2006 PowerPoint presentation by the White House political office on Republicans in tight congressional races, sources told ABC News.

The agency contracts for services, supplies and real estate on behalf of the entire federal government.

Special Counsel Scott Bloch sent a copy of the draft report to Doan's office for comment last week, confirmed OSC spokesman Jim Mitchell, who declined to discuss the report's findings. She has two weeks to respond, after which Bloch will forward the final report to President Bush along with his recommendations for action. Bloch could advise the president to suspend or fire Doan for the infraction.

The report may place the White House in the awkward position of disciplining a senior official for taking political action in response to a White House political presentation. Despite Bloch's advice, experts say President Bush is not likely to fire Doan.

4 Comments:

The revelations after Bush leaves office, it's going to be akin to the experience a landlord reclaiming a rental property after a period of years only to make one hideous and shocking discovery after another, piles of this and that left here and there, previously hidden damages

And he's a cross dresser who likes to have pudding dumped on him while he's demeaned by a dominatrix, stuff like that, and potatoes wedged up in there too with no crisco